Random Reads

  The classic that still has something to teach us about who we choose to be Some books you read for the story. Others you read for the lesson. To Kill a Mockingbird is rare in that it gives you both — a story so well-told you forget you're being taught something, and a lesson so quietly woven in that it sneaks up on you long after you've closed the book. Whether this is a re-read from your school days or your first time picking it up, it holds up as one of those stories that says something different to you depending on where you are in life. What It's About Set in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Great Depression, the novel is narrated by Scout Finch, a young girl looking back on a pivotal chapter of her childhood. Her father, Atticus Finch, a principled lawyer, takes on the defense of Tom Robinson, a Black man falsely accused of assaulting a white woman — a decision that puts the Finch family at the center of the town's simmering racism and moral hy...